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LA based writer / director / artist / vacuum salesman | Watched Washed Out "The Hardest Part"

Los Angeles, CA
Joined November 2012
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@paultrillo
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AI fashion show using dall-e to generate hundreds of outfits of the day after tomorrow. An interesting way to brainstorm costume and fashion design ideas. Collab with @shyamagolden @OpenAI #dalle2 #dalle #aiart
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Test using the erase feature in #dalle2 to create a fun stop motion effect @OpenAI
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Using @OpenAI dall-e 2 AI to dream up what a Chinese restaurant skyscraper might look like. The fluid frame interpolation was made with @runwayapp new super slow motion setting that also uses the power of AI to morph between frames. #aiart #ai #architecture #vfx #dalle
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Washed Out "The Hardest Part" I leaned into the hallucinations, the strange details, the dream-like logic of movement, the distorted mirror of memories, the surreal qualities unique to Sora / AI that differentiate it from reality. Embrace the strange.
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“The Simpsons” but make it an experimental cubist stop motion. Felt right given long tradition of reanimating the Simpsons intro. Created with the spellbindingly addictive #Gen1 AI video generator from @runwayml — still early days but step in the future if #animation #ai #aiart
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Using dall-e 2 to manifest what’s not real. Another test combining dalle stop motion with moving video. This time blending ai generated objects with a real object #dalle #openai #experiment #dalle2 #aiart
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NeRFs of the Louvre made from a handful of short iPhone videos shot during a location scout last month. Each shot reimagined over a month later. The impossibilities are endless. More to come… Made with @LumaLabsAI . #nerf #vfx #aiart #shotoniphone
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This place is changing. Part of the evolving buildings series using #dalle2 AI to mutate preexisting architecture. #aiart #ai #architecture #vfx #generativeart #surreal made with @OpenAI and @runwayml
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Impossible shot I’ve dreamed of for years. Made with 13 separate drone takes composited into one made possible with @DJIGlobal new inspire 3 “motion control” system. Thanks to @dronedudes and the human motion control @hokutokonishi
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First official commissioned music video made with @OpenAI Sora for @realwashedout This was an idea I had almost 10 years ago and then abandoned. Finally was able to bring it to life. Watch the full video here
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Made with Sora. The Golden Record - from raw earth material to a time capsule of human life on Earth. Using 11 different generations cut together from Sora, I was able to explore what the odyssey of this record might look like. @OpenAI
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Tempting to use AI for everything but drawing my own storyboards has always been part of my process. “Absolve” had almost 70 shots to get at the Louvre in 8 hours so had to meticulously organized. Even with the rapidly AI vfx much of the original intent carried through to the end
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Only one of these cars is real. Another experiment pushing the limits of AI stop motion using dall-e in painting within video. Each frame uploaded one by one to generate 150 concept cars. @openaidalle #aiart #dalle #dalle2 #experimental #conceptcar #ai #openai
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Exploring Space / Time with Sora. This isn’t going to replace the filmmaking process, rather it’s offering an entirely new way of thinking about it. Not restricted by time, money or other people’s permission, I can ideas and experiment in bold and exciting ways Made with @OpenAI
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OpenAi's Sora can do a lot more than just generate text to video. This example shows an objectively beautiful morph between one subject into another. The VFX implications here are staggering
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“Thank You For Not Answering” short film written by me and “co-directed” with @runwayml #gen2 . Made from images+text 2 video. While it’s not quite reality, it presents us with an entirely new aesthetic. There is beauty in the imperfections. #aiart #AI #aivideo #filmmaking
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The you you are today is not the you you were yesterday. Another week, another AI experiment using #dalle2 and @runwayml This time AI was used to animated face masks, generate jewelry and create organic rock formations #aiart #vfx #ai
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Breakdown of my last video with a combination of effects in @runwayml including the new erase and replace as well as green screen, slow mo and motion tracking. #ai #vfx #howto #aiart #machinelearning
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Where do we evolve from here? Using #dalle2 in painting onto video frames to generate objects on the leaf. No photoshop. No photos. All AI. AI was used to generate the voice of David Attenborough. Written with some help from @MissyElliott #AIart #dalle @OpenAI
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“Absolve” VFX Breakdown. This film was a deeper exploration of the AI VFX techniques I have been developing over with the goal was to see if AI FX could be used in a more cinematic narrative setting. Made with stable diffusion @runwayml @LumaLabsAI @AdobeAE #ai #vfx #breakdown
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Fuck it — The Barbie Movie with AI generated Werner Herzog commentary track
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Resurrecting old ideas with Sora — things that otherwise would have never seen the light of day. Going through the archive of unproduced music video pitches, I can now see what they might have looked like. It’s like viewing an alternate timeline. Made with @OpenAI #sora
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“Ephemera” a short piece of impermanence made with @runwayml gen-2 motion brush
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Ephemera Made with @runwayml gen2 motion brush
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Beyond fascinated by whatever voodoo @runwayml #Gen2 is conjuring. These are some outtakes from a short I'm releasing next week. Simulating water is some processor-intensive stuff. Thats why generating will replace rendering in future VFX #ai #aiart #generativevideo #generativeai
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Finally got to see Michaelangelo's David in Florence and rather than just take a photo like normal person, I spent 20 minutes walking around it capturing every angle looking like an insane person. It's hard to look cool when making a #NeRF but damn it looks cool later @LumaLabsAI
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How to evolve a building with AI… Using #dalle2 in combination with @runwayml roto and slow-mo tools to “animate” without actually having to animate. Dall-e creates the keyframes and Runway does the tweening by using AI enhanced frame interpolation. #aiart #vfx #breakdown
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Moving on is the hardest part. This is about losing a loved one and dreaming of them after they're gone. But memories are subjective, distorted mirrors of reality. That's what's in the latent space. The Hardest Part by @realwashedout Made with Sora
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“An Uncanny Hall Of Mirrors” A completely synthesized reality made with @runwayml beta of #gen2 … and wow… it kinda rattled me to my core. All you need is an image or a text prompt - still a very early version but another paradigm shift in the world of AI filmmaking. #aiart #ai
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TRUCX! DO YOU LIKE TRUX! Do you like to see trucks smash together like a boom boom? Made with Gen-2 #gen2 #ai #trucks
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First test running #stableDifusion batch #img2img on rotoscoped footage… a lot of potential here… #ai #aiart #experimental
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Can AI create better VFX? Lots of VFX don’t look great because they don’t know what they’re lighting to on set. Using a variety of AI tools, we can now move fluidly between pre and post. BGs made with stable diffusion, Photoshop Gen Fill, Magnific, Krea and Topaz and Runway Gen-2
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Using @runwayml new frame interpolation to smooth out stop motion animation #videoart #ai #machinelearning
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Kicked off the AI session at TED on Tuesday with this video I made with Sora to imagine what 40 more years of TED might look like
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What will TED look like in 40 years? For #TED2024 , we worked with artist @PaulTrillo and @OpenAI to create this exclusive video using Sora, their unreleased text-to-video model. Stay tuned for more groundbreaking AI — coming soon to !
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Another look at dancing smoke and mirrors with @CitizenPlain and @hokutokonishi — breaking down the multiple step process to transform raw iPhone video into a human formed smoke simulation @runwayml #gen1 #aiart
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One person's trash is another person's spaceship. The new @adobe Photoshop with #firefly is truly transformative. It's a giant leap forward. #AI #spacetrash #aianimation
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Ghosts in the machine. Using DALL-E 2 to generate and composite into a video backdrop. The lighting match is pretty remarkable. #ai #vfx #dalle2 #aiart #liminalspace @openaidalle
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When crafting a shot, often you’re working right up to the edge of frame. Everything out of frame is pure chaos. Using #dalle2 out-painting to break the fourth wall for the endings of films. Turns out Dall-e is the perfect vfx tool for doing set extension. #ai #aiart #dalle #zoom
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Got to play with @runwayml new #Gen1 AI video generator that allows you to take an input video and transform it infinitely. A game changer for VFX down the line. This is composited with the original footage plus 3 Gen1 renders. No more stock elements! #ai #aiart #vfx
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The power to dream whatever you wish — transforming some plain ol’ video footage into a cloudy dream using #VFX and #AI tools powered by the Dell Precision 7770 Workstation and NVIDIA Studio’s creative ecosystem. #aiart #surreal #animation
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The possibilities haven’t been fully realized yet. An attempt to make #nerf more cinematic. This will have a huge impact on VFX going forward. Shot on an iPhone made with @LumaLabsAI #aiart
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It all blends together after the first 6. Made earlier this year all within @runway using inpainting and frame interpolation - twist on my first ai technique
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“ABSOLVE” by Jacques is on @vimeo Staff Picks. A trip through the Louvre where a cosmic teardrop reveals the agony underneath of these historical artworks. Follow your tears and see where it might take you Watch #aianimation #ai #vfx #stablediffusion
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Used @runwayml to help roto all these dall e outfits
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“If you turn your back on the world, it will turn it’s back on you.“ Architecture is mutated and animated entirely with AI using #dalle2 and the power of @runwayml to rotoscope and create the frame morph interpolation. #aiart #generativeart #architecture #runwayml #vfx #ai
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Turns out #nerfs are really good at clouds. Taken from a quick video out the plane window. #LumaAI @LumaLabsAI #nerf
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Every bit of this animation is generated from @runwayml #gen2 using input images and text but the results are always a bit of a surprise. Still believe traditional animation still has a bright future. It will only be amplified by being able to work smarter #ai #aiart #animation
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Revolving through the Sri Lanka low country along the southwestern coast w/ @shyamagolden Locations include Hiriketiya, Lunuganga, Nugegoda, Dikwella, Nilwella, Bentota 🎵 by Dave House and Sumudi Suwaweera NeRFs created with @luma_ai #nerf #luma_ai #transition #3dscan #ai
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Wow been keeping this one under wraps for a min. New film I directed for @gofundme . An incredible amount of work went into developing the workflow to create a 2 minute living painting-blending live action and animation. Wouldn’t have been possible just 6 months ago #ai #animation
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When the world needed kindness, you were there. Time and time again, donation by donation. Here’s a video to show the power of all your help. Thank you for donating. Learn more:
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In a constant state of ascension, our past selves are left behind and our new self is made of infinite synthesis. Featuring @_MrOx_ #vfx #runway #videoart
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1 year ago made the first stop motion AI VFX shot using dall-e inpainting. This technique inspired many to use the tool in a new way and it expanded my mind as to what the future of VFX would look like. Been trapped in the rabbit hole ever since.
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Test using the erase feature in #dalle2 to create a fun stop motion effect @OpenAI
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Astrological Gods - looking to the cosmic heavens, our eyes try to make sense of the vast sea of light. Made with @runwayml beta of #gen1 - an addicting, surprising new dream machine that feels like it was conjured with magic. . #animation #experimental #aiart #videoart #ai
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In a constant state of covering and uncovering. AI generated plant growth created with #dalle2 . Featuring @shyamagolden . . . #dalle #aiart #vfx #surreal #videoart @OpenAI
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Another shot testing @DJIGlobal inspire 3 “motion control” drone system. This is a shot a motion control arm could never achieve - maximum height is always an issue. But the real magic is @hokutokonishi ability to control his wall cycle in sync with the drones take off
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Experimenting with #img2img using Muybridge’s first film of a black man riding a horse. As the #ai attempted to increase the quality I was intrigued by what was lost. Entering this new realm of image-making, let’s consider what we’re adding and not overlook of what came before
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The true self is not a fixed point in time or space. Made with @LumaLabsAI #nerf #ai #vfx #aiart
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AI is ruining art. “Absolve” follows an out of control teardrop in the Louvre and tries to make crying in public look cool! Liquid created with after effects and #stablediffusion img2img. No 3D. An alternative to how we approach VFX Watch: #aiart #vfx
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Tomorrow… “Thank You For Not Answering” @runwayml #gen2
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Shot breakdown from “Absolve” using @runwayml #gen2 to generate “3D” asset/ then comped into the shot and ran through stable Diffusion #img2img - experimental workflow for now but glimpse into a future where generating will replace rendering #ai #aiart #vfx #aianimation
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Love that a tech company like @runwayml is bringing back physical media. Beautifully executed as well.
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It is live. My collab with @realwashedout made with @OpenAI Sora
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"The Hardest Part" - directed by @paultrillo - out now. The first commissioned music video created entirely through @OpenAI 's Sora.
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In the spaceship, in the vortex, in the neural radiance field with #jacquesauberger music by Jacques & @RealCanblaster Vocals by Le TMH More good things on the way. #nerf made with @LumaLabsAI #vfx #psychedelic #3danimation #3dscan
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Sora is at its most powerful when you’re not replicating the old but bringing to life new and impossible ideas we would have otherwise never had the opportunity to see. Check out more of my experiments on the blog post
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AI is going to change VFX. This is a silly little experiment but it shows how powerful dall-e 2 is in generating elements into a pre existing video. These tools will become easier to use so when spectacle becomes cheap, ideas will prevail #aiart #dalle #ufo @openaidalle #dalle2
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Timelapse showing how repeatable that drone really is
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Spiraling through the vortex of agony and ecstasy. Clip from “Absolve” with Jacques shot on location at @MuseeLouvre —full video in bio Live action footage projected onto a @LumaLabsAI #nerf and then process through stable diffusion #img2img #aiart #experiment #vfx #ai #aging
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Found a new use for #ai . Set dressing for film shoots. All these 90s hunks were generated in AI. #dalle2 #stablediffusion
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An infinite pan featuring my talented wife @shyamagolden and where she gets her inspiration. Stitching two different handheld shots together use #dalle2
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And now for the outtakes @TheSimpsons
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Using a different in-painting prompt on each frame I create an image sequence that I then re-imported into after effects
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Using @OpenAI Dall-e 2's new outpainting tool to expand the canvas forever and ever ever. #aiart #dalle2 #dalle
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This is the video inpaintjng I’ve been waiting for. Nathan and I have been playing with some new techniques using #animatediff and video input with moving masks… get ready
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AI VFX: In-painting on moving video. 6 tests combining a prompt, footage, and a mask to create VFX shots. Made with @paultrillo This feels like the start of an entirely new paradigm in VFX! #StableDiffusion #AIVFX #AIVideo #AnimateDiff
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What a year. What is a year? A year gets more abstract every year. Here is a lot of the non abstract things that concretely happened. A lot happened, a lot didn’t happen but we will never know what that was. Thanks to everyone who made this less abstract of a year.
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“Looking In, Looking Out” look out for it coming online tomorrow. 4 years ago, over 50 people sent me videos of what they were doing during the tragedy and mundanity of the 2020 lockdown. All the self taped videos were stitched together into video quilt of a single place and time
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"NOTES TO MY FUTURE SELF" VFX breakdown combining a variety of AI tools that shows the fluidity from pre-pro to post. The stable diffusion image became references for how to light the actors on set. The final BGs were upscaled, expanded and then injected with motion using Gen-2
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Quick vfx breakdown
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Blind to time beyond ourselves. Shot in an abandoned building in Dickwella Sri Lanka. #nerf scans made with @LumaLabsAI and overlaid with lighting effects processed with @runwayml #gen1 #spookyseason #ai #vfx
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Sometimes you wish they would just take you away. Shot by Patrick Jones Featuring Steve Nwachukwu Music by: Found Objects Composer: Louis Weeks No green screen, no turntable platform, no wire rig. 😉 AI tools powered by @runwayapp #vfx
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Some of the fits that didn’t make the cut
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Eery one of the 80 VFX shots in “Absolve” use generative AI. However traditional vfx are still needed for control — the team at PPVFX handled the Houdini simulation which were processed through #stablediffusion #ing2img and ebsynth like a render engine. #vfx #ai #aiart #film
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Outfit swapping is an effect I’ve done in my work a few different ways. Al has made this digital effect much easier and more complex but doesn't replace the need and quality of practical effects. Nor does it replace actual designers
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“Absolve” featuring @yocestjacques premieres tomorrow. A journey through the emotional realm of the Louvre where AI destroys historical artwork. Never thought they would allow me into the museum but here we are! Maybe the first #AI project to be printed to 16mm film? #aiart #vfx
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Outfit swapping is an effect I’ve done in my work a few different ways. Al has made this digital effect much easier and more complex but doesn't replace the need and quality of practical effects. Nor does it replace actual designers
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To create this, the shot had to be tracked in 3D to create a moving mask that matches the camera move. The frames are exported out as pngs with transparency. Dall-e then fills in the gap of the transparent hole. The images are sequenced together and slowed down
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Another behind the scenes look at @gofundme “Help Changes Everything” video - side by side comparison of the live action vs the composited animation and AI #img2img process. Featuring my doge Pepper who we converted into a German Shepard #bts #stablediffusion #ai #aiart #vfx
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For the second year in a row I had the pleasure of being on the jury for the Runway film festival… the progress of both technology and ideas has been exciting to watch. I will also be speaking May 1st screening in LA. Come say hey. Ticket info below…
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Runway
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Ten films. Special presentations. And a panel all about the persistence of story. Join us in exactly one week for the second annual AI Film Festival in Los Angeles. Select seats still available, request to attend at
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Thanks to the quarantine I got around to finishing this neglected project. "UNTIL THERE WAS NOTHING" is in f*cking 4K on Vimeo!!!
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In one week “Absolve” a new film with @yocestjacques will premiere. Shot on location at @MuseeLouvre and pushing AI visual effects to new heights. Stay tuned…
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Life imitating art imitated by an AI. The oil paintings of @shyamagolden made into a custom #stablediffusion model. Excited by the possibilities to turn her art into motion. Masks made in Sri Lanka by a family business: ceylonese boutique on Etsy #videoart #experimental #aiart
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If you can dream anything you wish… when will u decide to wake up? … did I go too far this time? Most likely. #ai #aiart #videoart #stablediffusion #dalle2
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Some of my favorite rejects
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The past is nothing more than a memory. Featuring @_MrOx_ Made with @runwayml #ai #aiart #vfx #surreal #videoart
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The frame sequence is then uploaded to @runwayml - using their new super slow motion feature, I slowed the frame sequence down to 25% speed to force a fluid interpolation motion to smooth out the raw jittery stop motion
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The animation was created by masking out a region of the source video and exporting each frame to dall-e with a transparent hole to fill in
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Just imagine...
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Runway
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Introducing Erase and Replace   A new AI Magic Tool that allows you to transform your images simply by using a natural language description. Available now:
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Coral reef couture ... test using img2img in #stablediffusion #aiart
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